Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is assuring Oklahoma's governor that the Obama administration will provide all possible help to the state after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs. White House officials said Monday that Napolitano called...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in private Monday as they drove toward expected Judiciary Committee approval by mid-week. In a long day of drafting, the panel voted to...

LYNN BERRY

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

MOSCOW (AP) -- A U.S. diplomat was ordered Tuesday to leave the country after the Kremlin's security services said he tried to recruit a Russian agent, and they displayed tradecraft tools that seemed straight from a cheap spy thriller: wigs, packets of cash, a knife, map and compass, and a...

MICHAEL BIESECKER

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Sgt. 1st Class Naida Hosan is not a Muslim -- she's a Catholic. But her name sounded Islamic to fellow U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and they would taunt her, calling her "Sgt. Hussein" and asking what God she prayed to. So before deploying to Afghanistan last year for her...

PATRICK QUINN RAHIM FAIEZ

Published: Sat, May 4, 2013

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Seven U.S. soldiers and a member of the NATO-led coalition were killed on Saturday in one of the deadliest days for Americans and other foreign troops in Afghanistan in recent months, as the Taliban continued attacks as part of their spring offensive. The renewed...

Associated Press

Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev removed a backpack containing fireworks emptied of gunpowder from his dorm room at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth three days after the attack, according to charges filed Wednesday.

BARBARA ORTUTAY

Published: Sat, Apr 27, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Federal Aviation Administration said that the U.S. air traffic system will resume normal operations by Sunday evening after lawmakers rushed a bill through Congress allowing the agency to withdraw furloughs of air traffic controllers and other workers. The FAA said...